Tag Archives: Math

Humanities and Social Science degrees should require more math

Posted on Sunday, April 28, 2013 by Dad

Day 615 of 1000 Kelly’s enthusiasm for all things statistical and a discussion with her yesterday inspired me to look back through a few articles from The Numbers Guy at the Wall Street Journal.  I found a great article that … Continue reading →

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Up late preparing for Real Analysis and an EE Circuits class

Posted on Friday, April 19, 2013 by Dad

Christian went to bed about two this morning after preparing for two very difficult, critically important mid-terms.  When Lorena got up this morning, she took the picture below of how he left his books when he finished studying.

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Why not skip high school? (Part 8) Kelly takes a mathematical proofs class at Big State U.

Posted on Wednesday, April 3, 2013 by Dad

Day 590 of 1000 This is the eighth in a series of posts on the benefits of skipping high school and going straight to college.  The introductory post and index to all the other posts in the series is here. … Continue reading →

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Early math skills

Posted on Tuesday, March 26, 2013 by Dad

My buddy, Jon from Chile, sent me an article from USA Today that sings from our hymnal.  The title of the article is Studies:  Math Skills can be predicted, improved early on.  It is a great article and pretty close … Continue reading →

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Math and Engineering degrees are great even if you want to do something else

Posted on Thursday, November 10, 2011 by Dad

Day 80 of 1000 I found a great article in the Wall Street Journal this morning titled Generation Jobless:  Students Pick Easier Majors Despite Less Pay.  It had some startling statistics: Workers who majored in psychology have median earnings that … Continue reading →

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Math test preparation is hard

Posted on Friday, November 4, 2011 by Dad

Day 74 of 1000 Kelly stayed up until about 2:00 AM Wednesday morning in preparation for a Calculus III test.  Like a lot of complicated things, calculus is hard until you know how to do it and have used it … Continue reading →

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